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Land Between Sollershott Hall And Spring Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire

25/00157/TCATrees (Conservation Area)Approved

Approved on 24 January 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1: Common Ash - Monolith. T10: Common Ash - Remove deadwood. T11: English Oak - Remove deadwood. T12: Cherry Plum - Sever ivy. T13: English Elm - Fell. T2: Common Ash - Sever ivy, crown reduce T3: Hornbeam - Remove deadwood. T4: Common Ash - Sever ivy. T5: Common Ash - Monolith. T6: Common Ash - Monolith. T7: Common Ash - Selected branch removal. Remove over extended limb east towards road back to stem. T8: Common Ash - Selected branch removal. Remove back to stem, lowest extended limb with cavities west 8m height. T9: Common Ash - Reduce approx 2.5m height and laterals approx 1m to suitable growth points to reduce sail effect on union.

Received
17 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Letchworth South West Ward
  1. Received17 Jan
  2. Validated17 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 Feb
  5. Decided24 Jan

Decided in 7 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Land Between Sollershott Hall And Spring Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire. North Hertfordshire has handled 798 applications of this type. This one was decided in 7 days, 6 weeks quicker than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Letchworth conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 155 applications across Letchworth South West Ward.

99% of trees applications at North Hertfordshire District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Trees (Conservation Area)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Letchworth Garden City

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 January 2025
Target decision date
28 February 2025
Decision issued
27 January 2025
Permission expires
27 January 2030

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13700030
Comments
0
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Letchworth
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: North Hertfordshire

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